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How to be a good beta reader
Enlisting your fellow writing and reading friends to beat-read your work is so helpful, but becoming a beta reader for someone else is also a rewarding experience and a way to give back to your writing community. However, some writers… Continue reading
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Align Your Writing Goals With Your Routine
A few weeks ago, a viewer left a comment on one of my YouTube videos saying that they only enjoyed writing for an hour a day, after that, their joy disappears. They worried that it wasn’t long enough and that… Continue reading
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Dangerous Writing
At the end of last year, I read Diane Cook’s speculative novel, The New Wilderness. Don’t worry, this blog isn’t going to contain any spoilers, and I’m not ‘reviewing’ the book, instead I’m bouncing off a realisation I had while… Continue reading
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Read More books and Improve Your Writing | Tips and Tricks
Last year, I set a reading goal to finish fifty books by the end of 2020. Luckily, I (slightly) surpassed that by reading fifty-one books before the New Year’s broke. I’ve only kept a running record of my ‘read list’… Continue reading
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Writing Habits from 2020 Worth Keeping
A recent article published by The New York Times explained why we get so upset when our routines change. What it comes down to is that humans love predictability. Why? Because in prehistoric times, surprises often lead to unpleasant things,… Continue reading
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Busting the Five Myths of Writing
At the start of December, Caroline Donahue released a series of private emails to her newsletter subscribers dispelling five of the most common myths she and her clients have encountered. I love the idea and devoured the series, and if… Continue reading
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Writing Process | Master vs Prolific
Is it better to be a prolific writer or a master of the craft? I found myself wondering this over the New Year break after my partner and I started watching The Crown. In one memorable scene, Winston Churchill poses… Continue reading
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Revision: A Different Approach to Editing Your Novel
For the past month and the next two months to come, I’ll be deep into the revision of my current manuscript. This is the final, big – independent – revision of the work. (NB: future revision may be conducted depending… Continue reading
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Enjoy your author platform
In the final email, I sent out to newsletter subscribers last year, I shared how difficult I’ve found it to build an audience online. I’m not writing about this problem here as a way to gain sympathy or vent, but… Continue reading
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Best Books of 2020
At this time of year, what easier blog post is there to write than a ‘best of’ book listicle? However, this is not your typical ‘best of’ article as I am listing my personal favourite reads from 2020, consequently, not… Continue reading
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